Archive for 'Living'

I set myself a personal challenge in my recent trip to the USA and it is to learn to focus on the moment more. This has been something I am working on over the past few years and there is no better way to apply it than when one travels for a much needed rest and recreation. It required a conscious effort on my part to significantly lessen my need to plan for everything and brought so many benefits.

I just completed a short course on influencing run by the Wharton School and the Australian Graduate School of Management. My employer sponsored it and I had a fantastic experience because the course had a good mix of facilitators from both institutions and a professional actor (who taught us all about presence). We were given enough opportunity to practice what we learned and all of us had to leave our egos at the door.

Today I am writing the second anniversary entry for Summit Thoughts. It has been a wonderful two years and I continue to enjoy sharing my thoughts with people with the hope that it can help them think and reflect. I would like to sincerely thank you for your continued support. I recently finished reading the book written by Bronnie Ware a palliative care nurse on the Top Five Regrets of the Dying. It was a very interesting read but there ...

My father was diagnosed with an aggressive type of cancer in its early stages in January. He has successfully gone through six cycles of chemotherapy and we are all optimistic with his recovery. The cancer is concentrated in one body part and thankfully the smaller tumours “disappeared” because of the treatment save for the “mother tumour” which has shrunk in size. He will now have to undergo radiation treatment to finally say good-bye to this remaining blob. My sisters have ...

I am currently working on a challenging project with a number of dependencies, several success metrics and in some cases interesting stakeholders. I genuinely love what I do and find it interesting because I get to apply coaching principles in an environment that will experience a step-change in terms of processes and ways of working or doing things. My job takes me interstate every fortnight and in one of my cab rides home from the airport, I was able to ...